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Republican leaders on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday they wouldn’t hold hearings on a nominee from President Barack Obama.

Since Scalia died over the weekend, Republicans have said they plan to block Obama’s nominee, and many have added that they don’t think the president should choose a nominee at all.

Last night, as a tribute to the woman they called “Nelle”, a group of family and friends of Harper Lee gathered at a Monroeville restaurant to reminisce.

Elsewhere, Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders for a crucial win in Nevada’s Democratic caucuses. Hillary Clinton’s group is rebutting the claims that rival Senator Bernie Sanders won Nevado’s Latino vote by 8 percentage points.

U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk has broken with fellow Republicans by saying he “looks forward” to President Barack Obama nominating a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

While the event is predicted to be the strongest further south, near the Interstate 20 corridor, Cox said tornadoes are “definitely a possibility”, for the area.

Senate Republicans emerged from a closed-door meeting Tuesday committed to maximum obstruction of any nominee by President Barack Obama to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court – no hearings and no votes.

As the storms move into southeast Louisiana on Tuesday afternoon, forecasters say the severe weather will occur from the Baton Rouge area east across the parishes north of Lake Pontchartrain.

Unlike the Democrats, the Republican caucuses are organized around a secret-ballot presidential preference vote. To win the GOP nomination, a candidate must secure 1,237 delegates.

The home exploded Tuesday morning in Port Orchard, about 15 miles west of Seattle.

In McConnell’s speech, the GOP Senate leader cited a 1992 speech by Vice President Joe Biden, who was then a DE senator, in which he said “once the political season is underway and it is, action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election...

Leading House Democrats visited Flint, Mich., on Monday to examine the city’s water crisis and lob warnings that cuts in infrastructure would promote similar emergencies nationwide.

Six-week-old Brody was shot more than a dozen times with a BB gun, but doctors say he appears to be on track to a full recovery.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Monday yesterday in Las Vegas.

McConnell reaffirmed in his Tuesday remarks how a Supreme Court nominee from Obama would be treated differently.